LEXIC AGHIONIMIC EXPRIMAT PRIN SUBSTANTIVE DEVERBALE ÎN ACATISTOGRAFIA ROMÂNEASCĂ

Abstract

Deverbal nouns appear in a significant number in the corpus of religious texts, espe- cially of the akathists. Their frequency requires a thorough research of them. In a series of previous articles we highlighted the semantic categories that common deverbal nouns update (action names, state names, emotions, object names, action results, place names, temporal notions or natural phenomena). However, there are a number of nouns derived from the verb that have migrated to the category of proper nouns, being part of Christian terminology. More precisely, these are proper names that refer to the category of the sacred, being known as aghionime (hagionime). The current work is oriented towards this class of proper names in Christian terminology used in Romanian akathists.